| General | Music, music, I hear music, music, music, I hear music, music oh oh oh lord...music over my head. | | Music | In no particular order and subject to revision at any time: the MC5, the Who, Miles Davis, Richard Thompson, Bob Mould, House of Freaks, Lucinda Williams, Yes, Aretha Franklin, Joe Jackson, Howlin' Wolf, the Music Lovers, Marvin Gaye, Gram Parsons, the Faces, Porcupine Tree, Neil Young, Last Exit, Otis Taylor, Jellyfish, the Wildhearts, Mark Eitzel, Opeth, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Paul K, the BellRays, Sly & the Family Stone, the Bevis Frond, Nick Drake, Hank Williams, Motorhead, Johnny Cash, Femi Kuti, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, the Hellacopters, Kirsty MacColl, Snatches of Pink, the Diamond Dogs, David Bowie, Imperial Drag, Earth Wind & Fire, the Choir, the Spinners, David Sylvian, Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly, Adam Again, the Everly Brothers, Spock's Beard (Neal Morse era), John Cale, King Crimson, Love, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buffalo Springfield, Nikki Sudden/Dave Kusworth/Jacobites, Steve Wynn, the Lazy Cowgirls/Pat Todd, Husker Du, Chris Connelly, the Replacements, the Saints, Current 93, the Triffids, the Ramones, Crowded House, the Clash, the New York Dolls, the Green Pajamas, black tape for a blue girl, Hamell on Trial, the Coffee Sergeants, the Reivers, BB King, the Wannabes, 7% Solution, Shooter Jennings, XTC, Willie Nelson, Peter Gabriel, the Atomic Bitchwax, the Brought Low, the Stooges, RL Burnside, the Church, Blind Willie Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Junior Kimbrough, Prefab Sprout, the Trashcan Sinatras, the Beasts of Bourbon, Hammers of Misfortune, Radio Birdman, Dimmu Borgir, You Am I, the Chamber Strings, the Backsliders, High On Fire, Uncle Tupelo, Jill Sobule, Blue Mountain, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Todd Rundgren, the Drive-By Truckers, Scott Walker, Elliott Smith, Steve Earle, the Move, Guy Clark, Bad Brains, Townes Van Zandt, Built to Spill, Robert Johnson, Merle Haggard, David Torn, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Electric Wizard, Unto Ashes, Matthew Sweet, Elvis Costello, Dave Alvin, Jason Moran, Ghost, Isis, Boris, Soundgarden, the Dogs D'amour/Tyla, Catherine Wheel, My Morning Jacket, Steve Tibbetts, the Chameleons, Electric Light Orchestra, John Howard, James Blood Ulmer, Sigh, the Asylum Street Spankers, the Obsessed/Spirit Caravan/the Hidden Hand, Mike Rosenthal, Finger, Queen, John Abercrombie, Grupo Fantasma, Willie Nile, the Decemberists, Roky Erickson, Ted Leo + the Pharmacists, Talk Talk/Mark Hollis, the Feelies, Sonny Sharrock, Art Bergmann, Scott Morgan and his various projects, various psychedelic, glam and rock & roll obscurities and, of course, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, the Sex Pistols, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones (at least up to the mid-1970s). Extrapolate from there. | | Movies | Hedwig & the Angry Inch, All That Jazz, the Lord of the Rings flicks (even though I loathe the books), The Kids Are Alright, Velvet Goldmine, Cafe Flesh, Brazil, Akira, V For Vendetta, Black Snake Moan, good superhero movies (i.e. Iron Man, Hellboy, 1st two Spider-Man flicks, 1st two X-Men flicks, Incredible Hulk) and, of course, Godzilla movies. | | Television | I work in TV, so I don't watch it much. I do adore Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, though. | | Books | Shakespeare, Sherman Alexie, Larry Brown, Jonathan Carroll, Harlan Ellison, James Ellroy, Jim Thompson, Charlie Huston, T.C. Boyle, China Mieville, Julian Barnes, Richard K. Morgan, Chuck Klosterman, Alan Moore, Andrew Vachss, Joe R. Lansdale, Ray Bradbury, Colson Whitehead, Al Kooper, Greil Marcus, various music-related tomes and certain comic series like Lucifer, Hellboy, Preacher, Bone, Y: The Last Man, Powers, The Goon and Jim Starlin's cosmic acid weirdness. |
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